Zimbabwe’s government has used state-sponsored brutality to quash dissent and women on the front lines of protest are paying a heavy personal price.
Women activists in Zimbabwe are having a tough time they are being subjected to violence and suppression for fighting the political and economic crises that is ravaging their country.
Amnesty’s secretary general Irene Khan said,
Women in Zimbabwe are demanding respect and protection for their own human rights and the rights of members of their communities — often in the face of severe repression, including arbitrary arrest and torture.
President Robert Mugabe’s security services are such that women are subjected to severe beatings & torture, they are also denied access to food, medical-care and even legal help, while in prison.
Amnesty International has put forward a report where it has been mentioned that women who are going against the government’s move were not allowed to procure maize. The move has been made by the politicians to shut their critics to halt.
During a police crackdown on a prayer meeting in March this year, several activists were detained one of them was Sekai Holland, 64, she asserted that she was victimized with serious injuries all over her body and was tortured by police in custody.
Zimbabwe is dying with poverty day by day but it must not affect the leader’s sumptuous feast, which is the only maxim of the country’s leader, since a decade.
People will have to use the latent force of collectivity only then Zimbabwe would be able to see ‘a clear light of day’, otherwise time is not far when the country will meet the same fate as that of Nazi Germany in the early 1940s.
